#8 - Can We Trust Financial Information? And Should Audits Be Abolished?

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Deeponomics

Deeponomics

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Deeponomics is a podcast about the deep ideas shaping markets, finance, and accounting — grounded in academic research and critical thinking. Each episode draws from scholarly work to explore how investors make decisions, how narratives influence investments, and how theory connects to real-world finance. Expect conversations with researchers, deep dives into academic papers, and reflections on the stories behind the numbers.

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Deeponomics is a podcast about the deep ideas shaping markets, finance, and accounting — grounded in academic research and critical thinking. Each episode draws from scholarly work to explore how investors make decisions, how narratives influence investments, and how theory connects to real-world finance. Expect conversations with researchers, deep dives into academic papers, and reflections on the stories behind the numbers.

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#8 - Can We Trust Financial Information? And Should Audits Be Abolished?

Deeponomics

1 hour 19 minutes 53 seconds

4 months ago

#8 - Can We Trust Financial Information? And Should Audits Be Abolished?

Welcome, friend and future deep-dweller!

This is the second interview episode of Deeponomics—a podcast exploring the research, deep ideas, and theories shaping markets, finance, and accounting.

This episode features a conversation with investigative journalist and accounting expert Francine McKenna, founder of the Substack newsletter The Dig, which explores the underexamined mechanics of auditing, regulation, and financial truth.

The discussion centers on the role of audits, the nature of accounting, and whether financial information can really be taken at face value. Beneath the numbers, it asks: who is the financial information for, who verifies it—and can they be trusted?

Topics explored include:

What accounting actually is—and whether it reflects economic reality
The role and limits of audits in protecting investors
Why the Big Four audit firms face deep structural conflicts
How financial storytelling shapes public understanding of risk and accountability
What it would mean to rethink trust in financial reporting from the ground up

This is not just a conversation about accounting rules. It is a reflection on trust, transparency, and the architecture of belief that underpins modern capital markets.

Oh, and if you are curious about her work, check out The Dig: https://thedig.substack.com

Subscribe to follow along as each episode unpacks academic work, interrogates market assumptions, and ventures beneath the surface of financial storytelling.

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